MindNode: Mind Map & Outline

Brainstorm, Plan & Organize

Free · In-App Purchases

Your brain doesn't think in straight lines. MindNode doesn't force it to. Capture scattered thoughts, connect them in a mind map, and turn them into a clear outline, plan, or project structure. DESIGNED FOR EVERY KIND OF THINKER • Personal Productivity: organize your week, track life goals, and plan your next vacation • Students & Educators: create study guides, summarize lectures, and plan your essay structure • Business Professionals: visualize project roadmaps, prepare meeting agendas, and plan strategy • Creatives & Writers: outline your novel, plan your content calendar, and brainstorm campaigns THINK: EXPLORE AND CAPTURE • Mind Maps: branch, cluster, and grow ideas freely on an infinite canvas • Outline View: switch to a structured, hierarchical list whenever a linear flow helps • Live Collaboration: brainstorm with others in real time and always stay in sync CLARIFY: STRUCTURE AND REFINE • Visual Tags: categorize ideas and spotlight what matters • Connections: draw links between nodes that go beyond hierarchy • Notes: tuck extra detail into any node, hidden until you need it • Focus Mode: dim everything except the work in front of you • Folding: collapse whole branches for a cleaner view ACT: FROM THOUGHT TO IMPACT • Tasks: turn ideas into actions, synced with Apple Reminders • Apple Shortcuts: automate your recurring workflows • Document Linking: connect nodes across separate documents • Import and Export: OPML, Markdown, PDF, SVG, PNG, and more EXPRESS: MAKE IT YOUR OWN • Themes: choose a curated look or build your own, with automatic light and dark mode • Layouts and Shapes: arrange nodes your way and pick from a range of node shapes • Images, Stickers, and Emoji: enrich your maps with over 250 custom stickers and more AI, A THINKING PARTNER, NOT A REPLACEMENT MindNode treats AI as a sparring partner for your thinking, never a substitute for it. You stay in control of every idea. • Suggest a starting structure or expand a branch with a tap • Turn a finished map into a written draft, or summarize a long document • Powered by Apple Intelligence where available, with its privacy protections built in ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, native on each • On Vision Pro, gather your thoughts as colorful pills floating in space and connect them by hand • Automatic iCloud sync, with offline changes merged when you reconnect • Localized in 13 languages, with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your ideas stay yours. Documents are stored encrypted in your own iCloud, not on our servers, and even live collaboration is end-to-end encrypted, so only you and the people you invite can read your work. MindNode is a small independent team in Europe, owned by its founder and answerable to its users, not investors. FREE • Capture ideas as mind maps, edit, rearrange, fold, and view them as an outline • Sync across all your Apple devices, and export your ideas in open formats so you are never locked in MINDNODE PLUS • Adds outline editing, Notes, Visual Tags and Connections, Tasks, Focus Mode, Apple Shortcuts, Document Linking, SVG export, AI, and full theming, across every platform • Available monthly or yearly QUESTIONS? We value excellent customer support. When you contact us, you will always reach a human. We're always happy to help: support@mindnode.com Terms of Service: https://mindnode.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://mindnode.com/privacy

  • 4.4
    out of 5
    58 Ratings

Printing New advanced print options let you print each mind map on a separate page and choose what to include when printing as an outline. Agent Integration Connect AI assistants to MindNode using MCP to organize and update your documents. Document History Changes made by AI Brainstorming and MCP are now clearly marked in your document history, and you can remove older history when needed. New • Adds a new organize mode to the action toolbar on iPhone, making it easier to organize your mind map. • Adds new app intents for use with Shortcuts. • Adds options for choosing what to include in Reminders tasks' notes. • Adds options to show, hide, and reorder metadata columns in the Document Browser's list view on macOS. • Adds sorting by creation date in the document browser. Updated • Allows selecting attachments of nodes without a title. • Preserves the vector quality of PDF attachments when exporting or printing a mind map as PDF. • Improves responsiveness by generating canvas previews in the background. • Allows detached nodes to be reattached while dragging by hovering over their new parent on iOS and visionOS. • Shows tags, notes, and attachments in outline previews according to the selected view options. • Exporting an outline to PDF now also shows image attachments. • Improves the accuracy of creation dates shown in the history view. Fixed • Fixes hangs when opening document during initial sync. • Fixes a crash that could occur when exporting a document with folded nodes. • Most sheets and alerts on macOS now longer prevent MindNode from quitting. • Fixes dashed and dotted branches of first-level nodes from appearing as solid lines. • Fixes a rare issue where some nodes were not visible after opening a document on macOS. • Fixes tags always appearing in outline previews regardless of the selected view options. • Fixes document relinking from the link panel on macOS. • Fixes an issue where deleting a node with a task did not delete the corresponding task in Reminders.

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Provider
  • IdeasOnCanvas GmbH
Size
  • 201.7 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 13 more
  • English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Monthly Subscription £2.99
  • Yearly Subscription £24.99
Copyright
  • © 2026 IdeasOnCanvas GmbH